✨ Discovery of the day
Year: 1948
Air Mail and Delta Barrage - 5 millieme
This stamp highlights the convergence of technological progress and vital infrastructure planning during the mid-20th century under the Egyptian military administration of the Gaza Strip. The composite illustration features a four-engine transport aircraft in flight alongside the monumental Delta Barrage (Kalyoubiaz) on the Nile, balanced by an imperial portrait of King Farouk I in a fez. The message carried by the illustration is one of comprehensive state building, linking the speed of modern Poste Aérienne logistics with the monumental civil engineering that anchored the region's agricultural economy. In the context of post-1948 Palestine, the dual overprints overwriting the Egypte base stamp serve as a powerful institutional symbol, documenting how Gaza's postal services were bound directly to Cairo’s infrastructural and political authority while preserving a distinct territorial identity on official correspondence.
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Queen Nefertiti Stamp Overprinted for Palestine - 55 millieme
Human Rights Day & René Cassin (UAR Era) - 35 millieme
Human Rights Day & René Cassin (UAR Era) - 10 millieme
Maritime Commerce & Shipping (UAR Era)
Egyptian Industry and Manufacturing
Struggle for Freedom (UAR Era)
Mosque of Ibn Tulun (UAR Era)
King Tutankhamun - 10 millieme
Islamic Mosque Lamp (UAR Era)
Princess Nofret (UAR Era)
Egyptian Industry and Manufacturing
Egyptian Woman and Cotton Harvest - 1 millieme
Egyptian Woman and Cotton Harvest - 1 millieme
King Tutankhamun - 10 millieme
Map of the Gaza Strip - 10 millieme
Delta Barrage Airmail Stamp Overprinted for Palestine - 15 millieme
Delta Barrage Airmail Stamp Overprinted for Palestine - 1 millieme
Queen Nefertiti Stamp Overprinted for Palestine - 1 pound
Queen Nefertiti Stamp Overprinted for Palestine - 500 millieme
Queen Nefertiti Stamp Overprinted for Palestine - 200 millieme
Queen Nefertiti Stamp Overprinted for Palestine - 100 millieme
Sultan Hassan Mosque Overprinted for Palestine - 50 millieme
Sultan Hassan Mosque Overprinted for Palestine - 40 millieme